Day 169: CYC in the SIT-E

cyc hangout part II

so, cyc’s hang out last week kinda… didn’t go as planned, so PJ wanted to do something really fun today for the hang out: BIKING AT NAVY PIER

honestly, this totally made my day when i heard that this was what we were gonna do!

sidenote: christopher and i decided to tag along again because we love cyc forreal, we do. well, i do, at least

anyway. yeah, so i was really happy and really surprised that we were gonna go into the city at like 7pm! when we got there, we found out that to ride the quad-cycle-things, you need to be 18 or 18+ or you need to be with a parent/guardian? so.. we ended up not being able to bike around like we wanted to :/ but… i wasn’t too bummed because we were in the city, which i love!

we ended up just eating inside the food court at navy pier and then walking around the actual pier there was a cruise ship called “Kanan” and we were like, ‘hey! it’s for CYC! “Kanan” pronounced “Canaan”!’ haha we had a few good laughs.

cyc actually kinda had some sort of a photo shoot, thanks to christopher and his photog skills. the pictures look really cool from what i saw on his camera. hopefully, they’ll be posted soon.

i really miss cyc.. i know i’ve said that a lot in my past posts, but i’m always reminded of how thankful i really should be for Canaan, CYC, our leaders (past, present, and future), and all the students. man, God worked wonders in me when i was at CYC. i can only imagine what He has in store for these youngins!

so thankful for CYC!!

Day 166: Early 4th of July Celebration

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today was pretty fun i always love hanging out with yg… haha it’s weird. i don’t feel older than them =\ i feel like i’m just a senior in hs when i’m with them hahaha that was a fun year in cyc

anywho, PJ and Alenna had a 4th of July bbq at their place–it was potluck! so people brought lots of side dishes and appetizers and desserts! they were yummyyyy afterwards, we just hung out downstairs until we went to go watch the fireworks at arlington race track. honestly, i’m not that big of a fireworks person, i just like the fact that people get together to do one thing: watch the fireworks. it probably sounds pretty stupid, but… i like the fact that we’re all sitting there and looking at one thing together. i dunno what about it that really gets to me, but it’s good. really bugs me when people in the group are distracted by other things–totally not saying that anyone in our group was, but yeah. just sayin’.

there are a bunch of pretty fireworks, although i don’t know the real names of them…do they even have real names?? o_O” wtjunks. haha but i like the “willow tree”, the “hand”, any shapes, the “chemistry”, the “hollywood glamour”, and… yeah, i can’t think of anymore. haha

MAGNESIUM STRIPS??? is that what burns super bright when you burn it?? like the brightness of the fireworks? haha. we did this in my chemistry class at stevenson. actually, that reminds me… one of my friends from that class actually fb chatted me a month or two ago. i was SO surprised when she chatted me i was so happy to hear from her! we had ap psych senior year together, too man, i miss stevenson..

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i forgot to write this:
4th of july is always some kind of a happy day for me. ever since i could remember, my family always did stuff for 4th of july, but as i got older, i ended up spending most of them with my friends. i remember one in particular, july 4, 2006–i spent most of the day with the maloney’s they were kind enough to have me and peter kim over and hang out, eat, spend time with the family. at night, we all went to melas park to watch the fireworks there… and then afterwards, julie and i went on tilt-a-whirl (one of my favorite rides at carnivals) MULTIPLE times! that day was also kinda eh, because i actually had to go to the hospital because my eemo was in a lot of pain, so we had to admit her into the emergency room. but yeah… i don’t know why i think of that 4th of july. maybe because a lot of things were going on and i just genuinely had fun.

Day 165: i love CYC!

Felicia on top of the slide. i really liked the lighting. this picture is funny haha--she's a cutie.

i was standing on the bottom of the slide at the park by lakeview, cuz that’s where we take the kids during gym time when it’s nice out, and she wanted me to stand there because when she slides down, she (sometimes) ends up sliding down onto the ground because she doesn’t stop in time. so, she would always look down at me to see if i was there, and i thought the lighting was really cool =) backlit? ionno the correct term for it, but yeah. i wish her eyes were open =\ haha. i like her hair in this picture though, currrazzzzy!

friday (this day), july 2, was one of the first days i went to a CYC bible study all year! i always love being with youth group PTL for CYC. seriously… don’t know what i woulda done without CYC so so so SO SO SO thankful; i don’t think words could express how thankful i am THANK YOU, JESUS!